EMLA cream (lidocaine/prilocaine) versus infiltration analgesia with carbocaine (mepivacaine) in vasectomy
Honnens de Lichtenberg, M.; Krogh, J.; Kjersgaard, P.; Miskowiak, J.
Ugeskrift for Laeger 151(47): 3159-3160
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0041-5782 PMID: 2688237 Document Number: 333875
The analgesic efficacy of EMLA cream was compared with infiltration with 1% carbocaine in 13 bilateral vasectomies. Twelve patients preferred infiltration analgesia. EMLA analgesia was only effective in the skin, and had to be supplemented as the incision reached subcutaneous tissue.
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